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Hi Everyone,
A risk of topic drift here, but what the hell.
It occured to me that in many of the exchanges that have occured on the
list, a lot of attention has been paid to similarities and differences
between humans and other animals (e.g. do other animals have beliefs,
culture etc. etc.).
Over the weekend, thinking about such issues, the New Zealand debate about
primate rights not long ago came into my mind. I assume most of you will be
familiar with this debate- about whether or not to regard higher primates as
essentially having rights akin to humans, so experimenting on them would no
longer be tolerated etc. etc. (I can't remember if they passed it into law
or not, but it was a genuine consideration- does anyone remember?).
Anyway, I was wondering what people's position on this issue was, not so
much the animal experiments issue, but the notion of regarding another
species as deserving of the same treatment as our own.
Vincent
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